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  • IRL: Going on hiatus!

    Hi friends! Thank you all for reading my goofy thoughts about books for the past little while. I wanted to give a heads up that I will be putting this blog on hiatus for the foreseeable future. It’s for a great reason though – I’ve been invited to serve as the administrative assistant to the…

  • The Secret Pocket

    Introduction Hi all, and welcome back. This week’s book is a little bit of a tough read because it focuses on a difficult part of Indigenous history in North America: the residential school system. A lot of work has been done recently around the first step of acknowledging what happened at this core piece of…

  • The Care and Keeping of Grandmas

    Introduction Welcome back! This is another picture book I found on NetGalley – I always like getting the chance to review these, so I’m grateful for the ARC. I was immediately drawn in by the cover and the art style, and the text paid off in a major way. This is an extremely sweet story…

  • Man Made Monsters

    Tsalagi should never have to live on human blood, but sometimes things just happen to sixteen-year-old girls. p. 5 Introduction Y’all. Y’all. I am so pumped up about this book. In her YA debut, Andrea L. Rogers (Cherokee) has come out absolutely swinging. Man Made Monsters is a collection of short horror stories spanning generations…